Call-Exner bodies


Call-Ex·ner bod·ies

(kahl eks'nĕr), small fluid-filled spaces between granulosal cells in ovarian follicles and in ovarian granulosa cell tumors; they may form a rosettelike structure.

Call-Ex·ner bod·ies

(kawl eks'nĕr bod'ēz) Small fluid-filled spaces between granulosal cells in ovarian follicles and in ovarian tumors of granulosal origin; they may form a rosettelike structure.

Call-Exner bodies

(kall′eks′nĕr) [Emma Louise Call, U.S. physician, 1847–1937; Siegmund. Exner, Austrian physiologist, 1846–1926] Eosinophilic follicles present inside tumors of the ovary, e.g., granulosa cell tumors.

Call,

Friedrich von, Austrian physician, 1844-1917. Call-Exner bodies - small fluid-filled spaces between granulosa cells in ovarian follicles and in ovarian tumors of granulosal origin.

Exner,

Siegmund, Austrian physiologist, 1846-1926. Call-Exner bodies - see under CallExner plexus - a plexus formed by tangential nerve fibers in the superficial plexiform or molecular layer of the cerebral cortex.